God is not outside this earthly case of ours.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

What might be your current goal can motivate you in some situations. For like when you priority something and you have loose ends on it, it will make your back itch.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

Thou canst not force my soul to wish thee ill, That is the only evil that can kill.

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.